年
niánNián HSK1

year

年 nián frequency
year measure word

二零二四年是充满机遇的一年。

èr​líng'èr​sì​nián shì chōng​mǎn jī​yù de yī nián.

2024 is a year full of opportunities.

年 (秊) nián
year measure word
a unit of time equal to twelve months or the duration of the Earth's orbit around the sun

他在北京住了三年。

tā zài Běi​jīng zhù le sān nián.

He lived in Beijing for three years.

age noun
the number of years a person has lived or a specific period in a person's life

他年仅十岁，就能背诵上百首古诗。

tā nián jǐn shí suì, jiù néng bèi​sòng shàng​bǎi shǒu gǔ​shī.

At only ten years old, he could recite over a hundred ancient poems.

harvest noun
the ripening of grain or the annual crop yield; the original meaning associated with the character's form

瑞雪兆丰年。

ruì​xuě zhào fēng​nián.

A timely snow foretells a bumper harvest.

New Year verb
the first day or start of the year, particularly the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival

祝大家过年好！

zhù dà​jiā guò nián hǎo!

Happy New Year, everyone!

年 Nián
Nian proper name
surname Nian

年先生是一位非常有礼貌的人。

Nián xiān​sheng shì yī wèi fēi​cháng yǒu lǐ​mào de rén.

Mr. Nian is a very polite person.

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
45th most common 3110.5 per million
Movie subtitles
154th most common 1170.4 per million appears in 97% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
913.6 per million appears in 89% of films
Written text
3177.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5E74

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)